“While it sounds like an outrageous claim, one is left to inquire whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place—at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nation’s news media have described,” he declared, noting that no surveillance video of photos of bodies had been released by authorities.

“Moreover, to suggest that [President Barack] Obama is not capable of deploying such techniques to achieve political ends is to similarly place ones faith in image and interpretation above substance and established fact, the exact inclination that in sum has brought America to such an impasse.”

It’s quite hard for me to accept the fact that this individual actually believes his assertions rather than using them as a vehicle to garner as much attention as possible. If not then he is the very model of a modern wingnut General.

Not necessarily. This could be so completely outside his normal demesne that it would not have showed up. I had a physics professor at Brooklyn Polytech (now Polytechnic U) who was a Scientologist and believed in all sorts of New Age mumbo-jumbo. But his physics was fine.

One must assume racism , since there is no logical or rational reason a person such as this professor , holding a masters degree would put forth such a ridiculous claim .Racism is in and of itself irrational and illogical .